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Maine Braces Itself for Paul LePage
Yahoo / Politico ^ | Sep 23 | Colin Woodard

Posted on 09/24/2021 12:42:27 AM PDT by RandFan

LEWISTON, Maine — Remember Paul LePage? Sure you do. He’s the former governor of Maine who has called himself, accurately enough, “Donald Trump before Donald Trump” — a hot-headed, vulgar and sometimes erratic figure who regularly made international headlines for doing things like celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day by telling the NAACP to “kiss my butt,” rushing up to a television crew at the State House to volunteer that a state senator liked “to give it to the people without providing Vaseline,” and leaving an unhinged, obscenity-filled message for a Democratic legislator which he said he wanted recorded and released “because I am after you.”

He joyfully mused about bombing newspaper offices and shooting rivals, cartoonists, and lawmakers. His final term was spent tangling with legislative leaders of his own party, having his vetoes of bipartisan legislation and budgets overturned, and watching his handpicked successor get walloped by Janet Mills, the Democratic attorney general with whom he had regularly sparred.

When term limits ended his governorship in 2018, he didn’t just leave office; he left Maine. “I’m going to retire and go to Florida,” he proclaimed just before Election Day, to the relief not only of Democrats but much of his own party. “I’m done with politics. I’ve done my eight years. It’s time for somebody else.”

But now: He’s back. Making good on years of threats, he filed papers last month to run for his old office against Mills, a popular incumbent backed by Democratic legislative majorities whose approval ratings have generally run more than 10 points higher than LePage’s best ratings during his eight years in office.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: colinwoodard; paullepage
No bias in this article... /s
1 posted on 09/24/2021 12:42:27 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Some people are like warships, they thrive in the middle of conflict, they quickly rust and seize up during times of peace.
Paul lePage is by nature a Happy Warrior. Good to know he’s on our side. He is 72 now. Not ancient in the political world, but no spring chicken either.


2 posted on 09/24/2021 12:47:29 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

Freeper sources say he has a shot at winning although I’d like to see polls as the media are painting him as a villain.

Worth keeping an eye on!


3 posted on 09/24/2021 12:56:32 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan; Impy; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; LS; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; ...

Imagine if Yahoo/Pollutico did this slanderous attack on a Demonrat.


4 posted on 09/24/2021 1:23:46 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Real Mainiacs (yes, they call themselves that) fighting back against the tide of liberals “from away” who have turned Portland into San Franfreako East.


5 posted on 09/24/2021 2:15:40 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: RandFan

Maine has RCV in addition to the RCV-enabled machines.


6 posted on 09/24/2021 2:37:39 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: RandFan

What a nasty, mean-spirited article.

And the author assumes that we are all as nasty and mean-spirited as he/she/it is/


7 posted on 09/24/2021 4:00:45 AM PDT by left that other site (Never lie to someone who trusts you; and never trust someone who has ever lied to you.(NCIS Gibbs))
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To: RandFan

I will donate a thousand $ to any politician who destroys Yahoo/Politico. /spit.


8 posted on 09/24/2021 4:12:31 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: RandFan

Correct.

Janet Mills has been horrid. She’s also an authoritarian. She shut down (or tried to shut down) a business fairly recently.


9 posted on 09/24/2021 5:05:24 AM PDT by sauropod (Bidet was no prize before he put the “d” in “dementia.” - Schlichter)
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To: RandFan

Colin Woodard

How can someone so young be a cuckold?


10 posted on 09/24/2021 5:21:50 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Socialism should more accurately be called Sociopathism)
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To: RandFan

The article is a bull turd liberal hit piece. Maine’s current governor and her democrat America hating liberal legislators are destroying Maine.


11 posted on 09/24/2021 7:06:25 AM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: RandFan

Will he arrange to primary Susan Collins?


12 posted on 09/24/2021 7:25:44 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Hard times: hard men. Hard men: soft times. Soft times: soft men. Soft men: hard times)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Massive smear article is due to LePage being the ONLY actual conservative to serve as Governor of Maine in years. They want to do to him what they did to Bill Brady in Illinois.


13 posted on 09/24/2021 8:53:33 AM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Biden? Yes We Can!)
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To: RandFan

Didn’t pay much attention to him before but this article turned me into a fan!


14 posted on 09/24/2021 10:39:21 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
"Imagine if Yahoo/Pollutico did this slanderous attack on a Demonrat."

No worries...
Soros is very clear on how his money is to be spent:
"Thou shall not slander nor attack any fellow communist!"

15 posted on 09/24/2021 11:59:40 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy; NFHale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxD3pT8C9-A


16 posted on 09/24/2021 11:08:12 PM PDT by Impy ("We didn't steal the election, we swear!!!" - Sincerely, The Election Thieves )
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